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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current principal is awful! She never showed any interest in the current kids but came in with the agenda to get different kinds of kids at the school. The previous principal was great! He really understood and connected with the students.[/quote] Agree-she is the worst. Terrible to the students. [/quote] She's wonderful! I'm so grateful she's trying to improve the toxic environment there.[/quote] It's really important to make a distinction here. A lot of parents are rubbed the wrong way by her because one of her biggest emphases is to communicate to the students that things like balance, self-advocacy, and treatment of others are extremely important and that they are coming in with priorities that are frequently damaging to their long-term prospects. By the way, many will read this as an attack on Asian-Americans because a) they currently dominate the school and b) many of the issues that she's trying to combat are unfortunate stereotypes of Asian-American parents. But the problems that she's referring to are far from unique to TJ's Asian-American population - they exist across the school and are largely a function of an admissions process that historically advantaged the exact type of damaging behavior that she's referencing.[/quote] When she arrived, her immediate agenda was to help strike a balance with homework. i.e. get the teachers to focus on course rigor and not course rigor+heavy workload. That did not fly. Pretty soon, she changed her tune to tell the kids that grades are not important. If I recall, she spent some $$ to engage a CA company to provide some lessons in that regard. I don't think anyone was interested and it went nowhere. [b]Kinda hard to tell a kid at TJ to chill and not take grades seriously. Seriously? What about their college prospects? If kids want to chill and find "balance" they should stay at base HS OR the principal or other FCPS management should have the balls to tell the teachers to go easy on the workload. Telling TJ kids that grades are not important is stupidity.[/b] Asian American kids, by necessity have to work harder than everyone else because they need to get higher grades than everyone else given the pervasiive discrimination against them in college admissions. Who's going to fix that?[/quote] Funny, that's basically what my IBET teachers told me when I showed up for orientation back in the 90s. It was "You're used to getting all As. You probably won't do that here. It's OK to get a B sometime."[/quote]
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